Radeon Technologies is now trying to extend VR technology to live-streaming of sports like cricket
Soon, the experience of watching sports sitting in your living room would get a virtual boost.
Radeon Technologies Group, a part of chip maker AMD, is out to change the way people watch sports at home.
Using a virtual reality (VR) headset, the company wants to give a 360-degree view of a sporting arena to a viewer. The living room would suddenly be in the middle of a stadium. A viewer with a VR headset would get a glimpse of every inch of the stadium by moving his head towards the direction he wants to see.
“We are talking to people in the sporting world for live streaming of matches on our VR platform,” Raja Koduri, senior vice-president of Radeon Technologies Group, who heads the graphics processor development initiative of AMD, told Business Standard. “We hope to make some announcements in this regard in the second half of this year.”
Radeon perfected the technology for live streaming during its collaboration in the making of Baahubali 2, said Koduri.
“The tools that were used in the making of Baahubali 2 were 10 times better than what were used to make the first Baahubali. Part 2 contains two trillion pixels of graphics. There was not a single frame without VR content.” Read more
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